Cox 50Mb x 10Mb

[Michael Butash]

The only actual difference in service is a config file, less bandwidth 
at the modem, and your ip addressing.  Nothing else changes, you still 
terminate on the same gear as your neighbors, only you get a config file 
with less port filters and allowable mac addresses for cpe's behind the 
modem for allowed hosts to get public addresses via dhcp or static. 
Recently they were testing sending cbs customers out local peering 
direct vs. all the way to LA or Dallas as they normally do, might still be.

The on-call techs are really what you're paying for with cbs, if/when 
the coax goes out they will come same day, and generally a better 
quality of tech coming to your house.  These days, ymmv though, they're 
starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for labor as a whole in cox.

For my money, I stay on residential, even though more or less I have a 
business network behind it, one address suits me just fine.  Everything 
I need to do outside is more or less personal, unless my servers need an 
update or something, or I vpn somewhere else.  I found out a few years 
ago cox stopped filtering a lot of things on residential, lo and behold 
I could now hit 443 on residential service - then I really didn't need 
business services.

Another annoyance of cox's "bleed the rock" shenanigans, they no longer 
allow you to buy a second address on anything less than their "ultimate" 
plan.  I wanted a separate address for my business firewall and my 
personal/residential one, and (after 4 calls) told that only way to do 
that was to go with ultimate or business.  I don't need the bandwidth, I 
just want to logically separate my connected entities with different 
external addresses. Argh.

-mb


On 03/02/2015 11:18 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am scheduled to upgrade to 50Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up.  I was told 
> these numbers are the minimum.  I have a business plan and can run a 
> server which I have done in the past, but not presently.
>
> I asked about latency and was told I should see no difference using 
> the Cox network virus having the same box in a data center.
>
> I was also told they are responsible for all the coax to the modem.  
> Whereas for residential service the demarcation is outside your house. 
> Another thing they told me is if my Internet goes off line due to 
> infrastructure they will have a tech out the same day versus 2 or 3 
> days for residential service.
>
> Any thoughts on latency or any other issues?
>
> Thank you for your insight!!
>
> Keith
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